Did God Intend the Laws Given through Moses to Be Binding Only for the Nation of Israel?

Question

Are the Ten Commandments still to be followed? Aren't all the Biblical positions cited against most "modern evils" based in Mosaic Law?

Answer 1

"Matthew 5:17-20 - (Jesus during the Sermon on the Mount ....) "You must not think I have come to abolish the Law (including the Ten Commandments) or the prophets. I have not come to abolish them but to complete them. Indeed, I assure you that, while Heaven and earth last, the Law will not lose a single dot or comma until its purpose is complete. This means that whoever now relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men to do the same will himself be called least in Heaven."

On the other hand...

"The Jewish view of the Messiah differs substantially from the Christian idea of the Messiah. According to the mainstream Jewish conception of the Messiah as described by the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel, Jesus did not fulfill the predictions associated with the Messiah's coming.

According to Isaiah, the Messiah will be a paternal descendant of King David (Isaiah 11:1) via King Solomon (1 Chronicles 22:8-10). He is expected to return the Jews to their homeland and rebuild the Temple, reign as King, and usher in an era of peace (Isaiah 2:4) and understanding where "the knowledge of God" fills the earth (Isaiah 11:9), leading the nations to "end up recognizing the wrongs they did Israel" (Isaiah 52:13-53:5). Ezekiel states the Messiah will redeem the Jews (Ezekiel 16:55).

Jesus lived while The Second Temple was standing, and not while the Jews were exiled. He never reigned as king, and there was no subsequent era of peace or great knowledge. Rather than being redeemed, the Jews were subsequently exiled from Israel. These discrepancies were noted by Jewish scholars who were contemporaries of Jesus, as later pointed out by Nahmanides, who in 1263 observed that Jesus was rejected as the Messiah by the rabbis of his time."

***One comment I would like to add...in the 1st chapter of Matthew, the lineage of Jesus was given to prove that the blood of David was running in his veins...to fulfill the prophecies.

Well, there is just one problem with that...Mary was evidently impregnated by god and not Joseph!***

Answer 2

Yes. What most Christians dont understand is that there was two parts to the Mosaic Law - the moral laws and the sacrificial laws. For Christians, the sacrificial laws do not have to be followed since the whole point of them was to point to the coming and mission of Christ. The moral law is unchanging and binding. Though its important to know that the following of the law does not save us, but Gods grace alone. You can follow the LAW perfectly but still not be saved if your heart is not right with God

Answer 3

The Decalogue (i.e., the ten Commandments) is basically a changed, edited version of the Code of Hammurabi, from the Babylonian king of the comparable call created long till now the Hebrews swarmed in from the coast lands and took over modern Palestine. The Babylonians did no longer worship, nor believe in YHWH. it is likewise properly worth noting that Moses did no longer write the books of the Torah/Tenakh and the copies of such the exist on the instant have an prolonged heritage of a number of writers, editors, addtions and deletions. Karen Armstrong, in her artwork "The Bible, a biography", provide a honest account of the technique in touch interior the creation and compilation of those works from the time of the Hebrews to well known Christians. namaste (thank you for the "thumbs down"!)

Answer 4

Many modern Christians take a Marcionistic view to the Old Testament.

"An ordained bishop of Sinope, Asia Minor, Marcion declared that Christianity was distinct from and in opposition to Judaism. Marcion rejected the entire Hebrew Bible, and declaring that the God of the Hebrew Bible was a lesser demiurge, who had created the earth, but was (de-facto) the source of evil."

His early efforts to canonize a "New Testament" created a work in which "Marcion rejected the theology of the Old Testament, which he claimed was incompatible with the teaching of Jesus regarding God and morality. The Gospel of Luke, which Marcion called simply the Gospel of the Lord, he edited to remove any passages that connected Jesus with the Old Testament. This was because he believed that the god of the Jews, YHWH, who gave them the Jewish Scriptures, was an entirely different god than the Supreme God who sent Jesus and inspired the New Testament. He used ten letters of Paul as well (excluding Hebrews and the Pastoral epistles) assuming his Epistle to the Laodiceans referred to canonical Ephesians and not the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans or another text no longer extant. He also edited these in a similar way. To these, which he called the Gospel and the Apostolicon, he added his Antithesis which contrasted the New Testament view of God and morality with the Old Testament view of God and morality. By editing he thought he was removing judaizing corruptions and recovering the original inspired words of Jesus and Paul. Marcion's canon and theology were rejected as heretical by the early church; however, he forced other Christians to consider which texts were canonical and why. He spread his beliefs widely; they became known as Marcionism. Henry Wace in his introduction [4] of 1911 stated: "A modern divine. . .could not refuse to discuss the question raised by Marcion, whether there is such opposition between different parts of what he regards as the word of God, that all cannot come from the same author." The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 stated: 'they were perhaps the most dangerous foe Christianity has ever known.' Adolf von Harnack in Origin of the New Testament [5], 1914, argued that Marcion viewed the church at this time as largely an Old Testament church (one that "follows the Testament of the Creator-God") without a firmly established New Testament canon, and that it gradually formulated its New Testament canon in response to the challenge posed by Marcion."

It would be nice it "Christians" could come up with a solution which reconciled the differences between the Old and New, but it is not likely.

Additionally, as I have personally pointed out, if the glorification of "Jesus" is the creation of a false god, and subsequent worship, then all Christians are knowingly violating the 1st and 2nd of the Commandments of Moses.

Answer 5

Yes. And it was replaced with Jesus because the law was a tutor leading to the Christ.

When asked which was the greatest command he gave two commands; Love God, Love your neighbor. This was a NEW law that was meant to replace the Mosaic law, a law which NO human could live up to (except Jesus). That's why the law was called a tutor leading to the Christ. Only a perfect man could fill the law.

Answer 6

Yes, the Mosaiac laws were intended only for the Jewish people. Christians are not under the Mosaiac law because Jesus Christ set a new covenant, Christianity.

Jesus did mentioned a couple of the Mosaiac law and how we should still follow them, such as "love your neighbor." You should keep in mind that the Mosaiac laws did not just include the 10 commandments, they are all over the first books of the Bible. One of them is not eating pork, because the pig is unclean. That is in the Bible, but still, Christians can eat pork since they are not under the Mosaiac law anymore.

Answer 7

NO!
All the tribes of Israel
All the servants of the tribes
All those who chose to be counted among the tribes.
And finally to those who wish to walk as Christ.

No the Ten Commandments will always be in effect.
Technically all the Laws are in effect!

Answer 8

He didn't even mean them to be binding for ever,only until they understand who their Messiah is.Then God says in Ezekial,"I will give them new laws not written on stone,but in their hearts"That will be when they finally receive the Holy Spirit.Five of the commandments deal with man's relationship to God the other 5 with man's relationship to man.Guess What? No one can keep them perfectly,it's to show you ,you need a savior,one who can bear all this.That's what the 600 laws of Judaism teach,you can't keep them.Especially when now there isn't even ablood atonement(don't say swinging a chicken over your head will do it)but Jesus saves.

Answer 9

Jesus did not come to destroy to law. He came to fulfill the law & the prophets.

Jesus made the 10 commandments easy. He said to love the Lord thy God with all your heart, mind, soul & strength and to love your neighbor as yourself. Do this to fulfill all the law.

The first few commandments of the 10 are about loving God & His name. The rest are about loving others.

When a person is saved by grace,through faith in Jesus, person is not under the law of sin and death but under the law of grace & mercy.

The law came from God to Moses. Grace & mercy came from Jesus Christ the LORD.

In the new covenant, Jesus was the sinless sacrificial Lamb, who shed His own blood for the remission of our sins. That is why He is forever our High Priest.

Answer 10

Only seven of the Ten Commandments apply to gentiles.

The Seven "Noahide Laws" (named after Noah) are morally binding on non-Jews.